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CHILD'S PANTY Filed Oct. 15, 1947 Patented Apr. 5, 1949 iJNlTED STATES FATENT GFFICE.

CHILDS PANTY Isadore A. Hessel, St. Louis, Mo..

Application October 15, 1947, Serial No; 779,959

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in a childs panty.

The object of the invention is to provide a childs panty which has an extreme degree of fullness at the seat and in and across the crotch and around and across the groin, and wherein, at theisarne time, and with leg openings so located as to cooperate with said fullnesses in making the garment one of maximum comfort, the waist girthing top of the garment willv naturally adjust itself in a particular disposition on the body of the child.

A feature of the invention, in the connection last mentioned, is that the waist girthing top of the garment is in such association with other garment parts that such top is able to be arranged, and so as then to remain arranged, with its back portion at the small of the back of the child. but with its two side portions rather sharply downwardly and forwardly extended, so that its front portion is down on the front of the body well below the navel and hence at a level well below the zone of maximum swell of the stomach. The abdomen of a child, particularly one just learning to walk, and sometimes until a few years later, is considerably distended; and here the childs body should be free of artificial constriction. It is important, moreover, that air and sunshine unimpededly reach the entire front of the body.

A further feature of the invention, and as one characteristic of the garment whereby the waist girthing top thereof is naturally assumptive of the disposition just explained, is that there are no seams whatever on those portions of the garment which. while it is being worn. are at the crotch of the body. All seams are at the front of the garment; and said seams are forward of and above the crotch, and especially so while the garment is being worn.

Still another feature of the invention is that only two seams are present, and these being cornpar ively short ones, both close to the waist girthing top of the garment.

Still a further feature of the invention is that the garment is mad merely from a single piece of sheet material.

For further comprehension of the invention.

of the objects and advantages thereof. reference will be had to the following description and. accompanying drawing and to the appended claim n which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

the accompanying drawing forming a terial part of this disclosure:

Fig; 1 shows a sitting child, wearing a panty constructed in accordance with the present-invention.

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1; but showing the? child standing;

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the garment.v Fig. 4 is a rear elevation thereof. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary detailelevational View;

looking from the inside of the garmenttowardi' the near wall thereof in Fig. 3, and so toward the two seams.

Fig. 6 shows, on a scale reduced from that of? Figs. 3-5, the shape of the single piece of' sheet material of which the garment is made";

Referring to the drawing in detail, the newgarment is made from a single piece lil ofisheet' material, as rayon; cotton orany textile, plastic or. other material, such piece being cut to the outline shown in Fig. 6.

Said piece In. is finished in any desired. way along its edge H, and also along its edges l2 and Id.

In the completed garment, the edge ll, here shown as finished with a longitudinally elastic tape l5, provides the waist girthing top or belt portion of the garment, and the edges I2 and [4, each here shown as finished with a similar elastic it or it and a lace edging I! or l9, provide the two leg openings 20 and 2|.

The opening at the top of the garment is completed by stitching together the edges marked 22 and 23 in Fig. 6 to establish a short vertical seam 2d. The edges marked 25 and 25 in Fig. 6, after each is aligned with the adjacent half of the length of the edge marked 21 in Fig. 6, are stitched together to establish the seam 28, the only other seam present. The inclusion of this scam 28 brings together the ends of the two edges i2 and M which respectively complete the two leg openings 28 and 2!. just as the only other seam present, the seam 24, brings together the ends of the edge I! to complete the waist girthing ton of the garment.

By these few operations, the garment illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 is produced, and when placed on the body of the child as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, will remain as there shown.

There is the highest degree of fullness at the seat and in and across the crotch and around and across the groin; the waist girthing top of the garment leaves most of the abdomen uncovered and free of constriction; there are no seams whatever at either side or at the back of the garment, and the two short seams 24 and 28 are high up on the front of the garment above the crotch and in front of the groin. The elastic 15 with gentle pressure holds the waist girthing top of the garment at the desired forward and downward inclination without chance of dropping of the back of the garment, and so without chance of accidentally losing the latter; while the elastics l6 and I8 hold the leg openings 20 and 2| in snug but gentle clasp around very high points on the thighs.

Thus a very simple and inexpensive garment is provided, and one which, besides being extremely comfortable, provides adequate coverage where aproper, obviates abdominal constriction, and exposes an unusually large area of the childs body to air and sunshine.

Referring to Fig. 6, it will be noted that the single piece of sheet material In is cut in the shape of an isosceles triangle, truncated at its three corners. The truncation of one such corner is the straight edge 27, parallel with the edge I l, which latter is the long side of the triangle. Each of the truncations at the ends of said long line are lazy-V projections 29 and 30; the legs of such V of the projection 29 being the edges 22 and 25, and the legs of such V of the projection 30 being the edges 23 and 26.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred embodiments of my invention, it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise construction herein disclosed and the right is reserved to all changes and modifications coming within the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desired to secure by United States Letters Patent is:

A childs panty comprising a single blank of material having a long straight horizontal top edge for encircling the waist of the child, a short straight bottom edge extended parallel to said top edge and located intermediate the ends of said top edge, straight edges longer than said bottom edge for encircling the legs of the child continuing from the ends of said bottom edge and extended upward and outward from said bottom edge forming opposed obtuse angles with said bottom edge, straight edges continuing from the ends of said first-mentioned straight edges and extended upward and slightly outward forming opposed obtuse angles with said first-mentioned straight edges, said second-mentioned straight edges being of a length equal to one-half the length of said bottom edge to be secured to said bottom edge in end alignment, and straight edges shorter in length than said second-mentioned straight edges extended upward and inward between the ends of said top edge and said secondmentioned edges forming opposed obtuse angles with said top edge and with said second-mentioned straight edges, whereby the bottom portion of said blank can be folded upward and the side portions folded inward so that the secondmentioned straight edges can be secured to said bottom edge and said third mentioned straight edges can be secured together forming a panty having an obtuse angled crotch line and a top edge which is lower in the front than in the back.

ISADORE A. HESSEL.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,462,564 Weiner July 24, 1923 1,513,750 Dolan Nov. 4, 1924 1,670,474 Neilson May 22, 1928 2,348,242 Bullinger May 9, 1944 

